The Chinese Air Force - Evolving Concepts, Roles, and Capabilities: August 2012

An extraordinary list of contributors addresses the Chinese Air Force in a truly comprehensive manner, providing insight to a level that hasn't been seen before in any single volume on the PLA or its components. The chapters offer a complete picture of where the Chinese Air Force is today, where it has come from, and most importantly, where it is headed. Aging F-16A/B, AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-Kuo, and Mirage 2000 fighters are increasingly being outclassed and outnumbered by newer PRC aircraft such as the Su-27, J-10, J-11, and Su-30 aircraft. Where a decade ago, adversaries could operate with relative impunity facing a limited-range surface-to-air missile threat built around derivatives of the then 40-year-old Khrushchev-era SA-2, today they face far more dangerous S-300 (SA-10/20) systems and the S-400.

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